The CAC Moves To Main Street

For 15 years, the Contemporary Arts Center was the anchor tenant for the Arts Factory, one of the cultural hubs of the Downtown Arts District. That’s changed now that the nonprofit art gallery has relocated into the Alios space on 1217 S. Main St.

A bittersweet moment, but CAC’s board is excited to be shuffling just a few blocks away.

“Alios is a bigger, more visible and more accessible street-front white-cube space,” explains Giguet when asked about giving up anchor-tenancy in an established venue for a store along Main. “We’re thinking about how we might best serve not only the arts community but the greater Las Vegas community.”

To celebrate the re-opening of the longest-running volunteer arts organization in Southern Nevada, artist Matthew Couper unveils a curated group show, Sampler: Las Vegas, tonight at 6 p.m. The exhibit, which runs through December 14, features works by 13 artists from California, New York, St. Louis, Israel, New Zealand and Las Vegas. The show’s stated theme is to address Las Vegas’ inherent aesthetic. There is a curator’s talk on December 5 at 7 p.m.

“With its unique signage and advertising,” Couper says, “Las Vegas is the ideal city in which to explore the relationship between image and text.”